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I set forth, and would have specified what these were, but for a second interruption that was evidently not intentionally disrespectful, and was uttered with the bovine stolidity that never forsook her. "Excuse me, ma'am, but I've always understood that all that made a lady in Ameriky was eddercation, an' shure I have that 's well 's you!"
"Their General is an Irishman thrue to the sod, none of your rinegade spalpeens like John Mitchel fighting for slave-holders in Ameriky, and against the Lords and Dukes in Ould Ireland, and the slave-holders as Father Mahan tould me the worst of the two, more aristocratic, big-feeling, and tyrannical than the English nobility.
"Patience, Sweeny," smiled Thurstane. "We must be nearly through the cañon." "An' where will we come out, Liftinant? Is it in Ameriky? Bedad, we ought to be close to the Chaynees by this time. Liftinant, what sort o' paple lives up atop of us, annyway?" "I don't suppose anybody lives up there," replied the officer, raising his eyes to the dizzy precipices above.
Blake a cheerful good-morning, glancing at the same time towards the counter beneath which the liquid necessities were stored. "It's a fine mornin'," he began. "A beautiful day," assented Mr. Blake. "Ye'll no' live aboot these pairts?" inquired the other. "No, I live far from here." "Ye'll mebbe be frae Ameriky?" ventured his interrogator, closing in upon him.
"I've got a sister, but somehow she didn't care to go out to work, and so I had to go out to service; and I heard that more was paid in Ameriky, where I've got an aunt, an' I had enough to take me out, an' I thought maybe I'd get my mother out there some day, or I'd get money enough to make her comfortable, anyways." "What kind of work will you do in New York?
"Worrah! worrah! but this is a fine scare you've been givin' Tim O'Rooney, so me uncle said whin they towld him his wife was coming over to Ameriky to see him. Here I've been awake fur the last two hours, jist, looking and expacting you to come back, and thinking the red colored gintleman had carried you away entirely " Howard impatiently interrupted him.
But you can never find the food of a pale-face kitchen out here in the Openings of Michigan. When a body comes to reckon up all the good things of Ameriky, she don't know where to begin, or where to stop. I miss tea as much as anything. And milk comes next. Then there's buckwheat and coffee though things may be found in the woods to make coffee of, but tea has no substitute.
An' then he began tellin' me a string o' talk an' I could na' mak' head nor tail o't, so I asked again, 'If ye're a friend o' his, wull ye tell me whaur he's gone? an' then he said it straight oot, 'To Ameriky, an' it fair broke my hairt." For a minute Jean sat and sipped her tea, and wiped the tears from her eyes; then she took up the thread of her story again.
He reaches fur his long rifle, an' he draws a bead on the foremost uv them sailors, the feller that speaks fur 'em all, an' he says, droppin' that fatherly manner an' speakin' up sharp an' snappy: 'I reckin we're either goin' to discover Ameriky, or go right back to Spain, which is it?
"Well, if he went to Araby, or was born there, he'd be an Arabian Knight, wouldn't he? The lad's gran'ther were prob'ly a furriner, an' yours an' mine were, too, Trot, if you go back far enough; for Ameriky wasn't diskivered in them days." "There!" said Trot triumphantly. "Didn't I tell you, Button-Bright, that Cap'n Bill knows ever'thing?"
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